Fragmentary face with striking blue eyes stares from part-overpainted 1300s fresco in the Chapelle des fonts baptismaux, Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, at Beauvais, France.
Beauvais, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France: fragmentary face with striking blue eyes stares out from a part-overpainted 14th century fresco above the altar in the Chapel of the Baptismal Fonts inside the unfinished Gothic Roman Catholic Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, or Cathedral of Saint Peter. The Cathedral was founded in 1225. It was consecrated 50 years later, in 1275, but in 1284, parts of the choir vaulting collapsed. A 153 m (502 ft) tower briefly made the Cathedral the tallest structure in the world, but when this too collapsed in 1573, work halted and the building was never completed. Today, Beauvais Cathedral comprises no more than a 16th century transept and choir, with the apse and seven 13th century polygonal apsidal chapels accessed by an ambulatory. Beauvais lies in northern France, in the historical region of Picardy, stretching north from the suburbs of Paris to the Bay of the Somme on the English Channel. The Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis.
Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Cathedral of St Peter, Beauvais, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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